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  1. Re:Live by the cloud, die by the cloud on Google Confirms Shut Down of Schemer · · Score: 1

    ACK

  2. Re:What? on Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas · · Score: 1

    Peercoin interests me most of the list, because it claims to be energy efficient. Bitcoin is terrible because of the energy being consumed mining.

    http://peercoin.net/

  3. Re:legs on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 0

    And when you use a good pair of noise-cancelling headphones while you concentrate on your work, so you don't hear all the noise, you'll be fine.

  4. Re:upset employees? on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hello AC. It is extremely noticeable you have cited nothing to support your inflammatory anecdote.

  5. Re:I weep tears on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    You had UPS? I remember having to wait weeks for the results of our FORTRAN cards to come back to us students.

    The teacher brought the stack of punch cards into the room, and I'm guessing he must have driven a Chevrolet Suburban to get to school.

  6. Re:I'd have been happy if it would just sync files on Owncloud 6 Brings Collaborative Open Document Format Editing to the Web · · Score: 2

    Anecdotal confirmation from an AC doesn't amount to a whole lot.

  7. Re:Also, Google announced a name change... on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Top kek on StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa · · Score: 1

    After I RTFA, it seems a Jägerbomb icon might be more desirable and appropriate. I haven't realized it before, but Slashdot really needs a Jägerbomb icon!

  9. Re:those ingredients on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 1

    And I wasn't merely implying fortification. But that Jägermeister is fun to pass around and break the ice with new folks you meet and need to get along with for a short time anyway. I don't know where it comes from, but I was in such a couchette when someone stepped onboard somewhere and brought out a big bottle of Jägermeister and taught me this trick on a long overnight train ride all the way across Germany. It was more fun this way for sure!

    I applied a variation of this trick in France myself, with wine. On a long day's journey with French rail, I couldn't afford to pay their high price for a tiny bottle of water, and I really needed to drink more water that day. It was hot and I was on the train for hours and hours. I survived, but it wasn't so much fun. On the way back, I had to change trains at Gare Noord plus I had a little extra time. So I went to the grocery store across the street and bought about 2 liters of water, a similar-size box of wine, and a staggering amount of disposable plastic drinking cups which cost about 59 cents; the total was like 4 euros. That's about the cost of a tiny bottle of water on French rail. French rail wasn't making any sales of wine or water off anyone, seated anywhere near me in those tiny TGV 2nd-class seats.

  10. Re:those ingredients on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 1

    No, but a long overnight train ride in a tiny crowded couchette maybe.

  11. Re:those ingredients on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but if you happen to be travelling from The Netherlands to Austria, across Germany on an overnight train, Jägermeister can help to ease the journey with your new neighbors, especially if it helps everyone get some sleep. This is what is what invented for I think.

  12. Re:An A C Gilbert Chemistry Kickstarter Project on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    That A.C. Gilbert Chemistry is widely considered to be the Gold Standard, and is what most-likely initially inspired the notable chemical researcher Walter White of Albuquerque.

    Sadly, Walter White passed-away this past year: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/04/entertainment/la-et-st-breaking-bad-albuquerque-newspaper-runs-obit-for-walter-white-20131004

  13. Re:Simple Explanation on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    Did he patent this refueling process, or is any automobile manufacture able to develop compatible engines? If this were to happen, and the concept went mainstream, could the Earth's ionosphere ever be brought back into electrical harmony as it once was before, and what would the consequences be like?

    This technology might be further refined and made very useful for flying cars one day also.

  14. Re:Calendars on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    I use google calendar and gmail, (and Google Domains for Business, grandfather-style for free, along with my own domain). My Nokia N9 uses the Exchange API for syncing, to compliment the browser interfaces for these services.

    Meeting notifications and confirmations just work, no matter which device is being used.

    One might consider the privacy issues, but for ease and reliability, google is doing it for me, free.

  15. Re:fwd ur number on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 2

    If you are forwarding the call, won't you be charged at the $2 a minute destination? How do you plan to avoid being charged the high fee yourself?

  16. Re:Good on Intel Opens Doors To Rivals, Maybe · · Score: 1

    True. But only when/if Intel chooses not to be in the simple foundry business. When they choose to be market leaders, they've also chosen to give themselves enough wiggle-room to opt out of less-desirable deals. Intel wants to do both engineering of, *and* commodity production of, silicon.

  17. Re:Yay.... on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Sorry, replying to my own post, because I meant to reply to the AC GP in my previous post. I hit the wrong message in the thread to reply to.

  18. Re:Yay.... on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes. Back in the day we had FORTRAN and we liked it. Especially punching the cards and waiting for everything to come back.

    Now would you mind stepping over and on to the sidewalk so I can water that patch of grass you're standing on?

  19. Re:And the bubble grows larger on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 2

    It's ok. Evan Spiegel is 23 years old. He's got his whole life ahead of him. He'll bound to learn from this one way or the other. (And failure, should it happen, is good, right?)

    Kudos for not selling out to Facebook! That took a lot of balls to walk away, leaving all that money on the table. The world is probably a better place for it. I still wish Skype hadn't been sold to Microsoft.

  20. Re:Roll your own - but choose the right SW on Ask Slashdot: Which Encrypted Cloud Storage Provider? · · Score: 2

    I've tried SparkleShare and it works really well, so long as you don't have many large binary files, like images or videos. It fails where traditional GIT fails.

    What I found that works better is git-annex assistant and either your own redundant and cheap hardware disks, or you can also ssh somewhere, OR you can also use Amazon Glacier for a very very low cost. Yes, you can also encrypt everything before it leaves your machine. Check out the nice video tutorials.

    http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant

  21. Re:Multiple Monitors on OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review · · Score: 1

    Yes, and a tabbed folder manager too. What will they get around to next?

  22. Re:ConEd has had that for a while on New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    My colleague came in to work one day and told me the funniest story. He was standing on the tube subway platform the previous night in London, and some guy down at the end of the platform started to take a leak on the tracks. Maybe funniest wasn't the best choice of words. Fortunately for the guy taking a leak, someone with CCTV started screaming into the PA system to stop, and the guy on the platform did, in time. Be careful and think first guys.

  23. Re:Doesn't work on DD-WRT. on D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings · · Score: 1

    DD-WRT has always shipped with a default password, which is something like 'admin'. That is the Very First thing to be changed upon login, after a firmware flash, so what is your point?

    Is this the article you were referring to?: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/15/1234217/backdoor-found-in-tp-link-routers

    Perhaps your memory is faulty, but like this D-LINK situation in the news today, replacing the firmware will solve the problem. DD-WRT is the answer in this case, not the problem. If I'm missing something AC, your citation is requested.

  24. Re:UK already has this on Fight Bicycle Theft With the Open Source Bike Registry · · Score: 1

    In the Netherlands, the police regularly setup engraving points throughout the city every Wednesday, with a posted schedule & route. Anyone can stop, get their bicycle engraved and registered for free. So the police have the database everyone looks to.

    Bike theft has been such a problem, the current rules upon being caught buying *or* selling a stolen bicycle require a mandatory night in jail, plus other treats. Bike theft has since declined.

    There has also been a program where you can implant an RFID chip in your bike. The idea is if a beat-cop walks buy and the scanner goes beep.... (however the program didn't take off like gangbusters as one would hope, and I'm not sure why).

    http://www.amsterdam.nl/parkeren-verkeer/fiets/fietsdepot/fiets_graveren/

    http://chipabike.com/index.html

  25. Re:Pay by phone apps require outrageous permission on Who's Getting Pay-By-Phone Right? The Fast Food Industry · · Score: 1

    Posting to un-do slippery, faulty mod. I meant 'informative'.